So much of what passes for news is not news.
Lifestyle, publicity, disease of the week. Speculation on speculative finance.
Propaganda, a feature since the tracts of the 16th century if not
the Roman walls. Currying fears, stoking angers, preening envies. Fake news is
the lie direct, beloved of politicians and celebrities.
You know why
you absorb it. To see what’s going on, find connection, belong to the bigger picture.
News tries to put this across. Still, if you can discuss the gloomy and frightful
with yourself so much, surely you can find some light and love to ruminate too.
What if you forgave yourself for every embarrassing and witless thing you ever
published, speechified, or performed? It simplifies life.
The New Testament is new news. Many complicated
explanations come forth around the miraculous healings, but what people are seeking
is direct physical cure. “If you will, make me clean.” “Lord, that I might
receive my sight.” “If I might touch but the hem of his garment…” People walk,
leap, see, speak, recover their right mind, stand up after near-death, even
death experiences. What maintains this today? New news. We can be part of the
cure. “I will, be clean.”
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